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Author Topic: Sweet Homemade Backstop  (Read 813 times)

Offline stabow

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #20 on: July 18, 2011, 01:50:00 PM »
You better hope your wife keeps you. You might be hard press to find another one like her.  :goldtooth: .....stabow
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Offline T Lail

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #21 on: July 18, 2011, 01:55:00 PM »
very nice...does she have a sister ?????  :biglaugh:
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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #22 on: July 18, 2011, 01:59:00 PM »
Very nice, indeed. I hope you're just displaying it against the house.  Much better to shoot away from any buildings.  Never know what might happen.  I've known folks who couldn't hit the backstop at 20 yards.     :bigsmyl:
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Offline Ray_G

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #23 on: July 18, 2011, 02:09:00 PM »
Beautiful job on the backstop.  I have been using one of those stall mats for three years.  It hangs from the fence behind my straw bales.  As the bales get older, I get pass throughs.  The mat keeps the arrows from sticking in the fence.  With the bale and mat, the field point is never more than a 1/4" into the mat.  I have been dreaming of some sort of set up like yours with a bale platform to keep them off the ground.  Hmmmmm ...
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Offline 5deer

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #24 on: July 18, 2011, 02:15:00 PM »
:thumbsup:
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Offline South MS Bowhunter

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #25 on: July 18, 2011, 02:22:00 PM »
My wife in trouble when I show her this  :laughing:  Your wife is to be congratulated!
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Offline canopyboy

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #26 on: July 18, 2011, 02:58:00 PM »
My first thought was, "Wow, what a wife!"

My second thought was, "Wow, I need to show this to my wife."

My third was, "'What, are you saying I'm not good enough?'"

My final thought was, "I guess I'll just keep this to myself for now...."
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Offline ordcorpdw

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #27 on: July 18, 2011, 03:05:00 PM »
Impressive!!!! I thought about showing that to my wife too..........then my brain kicked back in. Hmmm, yeah that would've been bad.
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Offline Doc Nock

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #28 on: July 18, 2011, 03:09:00 PM »
SWEET!

Sawdust flying, kids wallerin, hooboy. That ain't no sissified city girl right there...

Couple posts too late to ask about a sister... and I don't like standing in lines!  :)

Congrats. That is too sweet. I can't imagine that a horse pad is cheap!
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Offline Pat B.

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #29 on: July 18, 2011, 03:19:00 PM »
And just what do you bring to the table in this relationship ????

Must be good ------- LOL.
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Offline GO Rogers

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #30 on: July 18, 2011, 03:23:00 PM »
Your wife is a good carpenter, I don't see any gaps in those angle cuts......♠ great job.  :bigsmyl:    :coffee:
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Offline COLongbow

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #31 on: July 18, 2011, 03:25:00 PM »
Thanks for all the comments guys!
Yeah, she does good work all right. I just sip a wine cooler and do my nails while she does the carpentry work around the place.  :)

Actually the horse mat was only about $40 at the local ranch supply mega store. Not bad. But that thing is HEAVY, and no fun to cut to size either (I'm told, lol).

Yes, the wife has a sister, but I got the good one!

I think I'm safe up against the house, I can only back up about 18 yards and I have to keep the neighbors from getting nervous about shooting in the other 3 directions.
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Offline JohnnyWayne

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #32 on: July 18, 2011, 03:30:00 PM »
She's a keeper for sure    :thumbsup:

Can I ship mine up to apprentice with her for a bit?    :pray:  

   :biglaugh:
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Offline Leland

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #33 on: July 18, 2011, 04:28:00 PM »
Very nice!
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Offline Hot Hap

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #34 on: July 18, 2011, 05:11:00 PM »
Wow-I have to get my wife on the stick. I think I would replace the wire rope with nylon-may save an arrow. Very nice-Hap
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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #35 on: July 18, 2011, 06:39:00 PM »
wHAT A WOMAN.
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Offline Shawn Leonard

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #36 on: July 18, 2011, 06:44:00 PM »
Great backstop, Better wife!! Shawn
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Offline bolong

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #37 on: July 18, 2011, 10:40:00 PM »
That is great! Your wife and mine are on opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to that kind of stuff.
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Offline elknutz

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #38 on: July 19, 2011, 08:27:00 AM »
Well done!  My compliments to your wife   :thumbsup:
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Offline LONGSTYKES

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Re: Sweet Homemade Backstop
« Reply #39 on: July 19, 2011, 08:49:00 AM »
Kerry you are a lucky man, but you already know it. She did do an awesome job. I use the same type of matt behind my bale target. Good stuff, works well.
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